Repair drone
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- Repair APC
The repair drone is a simple, ingenious piece of technology. Essentially a multi-purpose maintenance and repair bot using two VTOL turbofan engines, a mechanical arm that can be equipped whith a cutting laser, welding device or just grabbing claws, a few solar panels and basic AI routines designed for one thing: repairing and arming vehicles. It is employed by both GDI and Nod and is deployed from war factories and airfields/air towers respectively. The repair drone is also used in combination whith the cranes and mechanical arms on the Steel Talons Guardian Repair APC and the GDI Battle base (which is a deployed Rig).
The Scrin use something alike, only not as simple. They are similar to the drones used by GDI and Nod, but Scrin foremen have the option to teleport some of them anywhere on a battlefield for quick repairs. The Scrin repair drones can also heal alien infantry. The invaders utilised another, much larger kind that the Scrin used to build their biggest buildings that can not be teleported in via a Drone Ship, such as the Thresholds.
The similar technology is seen in Red Alert 3 as well. Allied Armor Facility, Allied Airbase, Allied Seaport, Imperial Mecha Bay, Imperial Docks use repair drones to regenerate damaged friendly mechanical units within a short range. Soviet counterparts do not have these tiny machinists, however Soviet Crusher Crane does, with a larger cover range.
Still, there are two modifications in Red Alert 3. First, repair drones can fix every type of mechanical units in range, not as in Tiberium Wars they are focused on units produced by the certain kind of buildings themselves attached to. Second, in Red Alert 3 each unit only can be repaired by one drone, and the working efficiency is slower.
